Marty, Steven:
It is of course feasible, in principle, to define many different profiles
for OGSA. E.g., one could build one on WS-Transfer and friends, one could
build one that uses a different construct than the WS-Addressing EPR to
address things, one could define one that uses JINI mechanisms, one could
define one that uses CORBA, one could define one that renames all of the
current WSRF and WS-Notification calls to be slightly different (oh wait,
that's the first in the list (-: ), etc.
Given the wide variety of possible alternative profiles, it would be
helpful for those like me who are considering attending the BOF to know
what more specifically what the goal of this work is going to be. The
name doesn't provide any information, other than to imply, perhaps, that
the interfaces on which the WSRF profile builds are not in some manner
"minimal" and/or "simple." I.e., can you define the
goals of the BOF more precisely other than "not
WSRF"?
Regards -- Ian.
At 09:11 AM 6/21/2005 -0400, Marty Humphrey wrote:
Folks,
There have been a number of informal conversations lately about the
feasibility/value/implications of a possible non-WSRF-based profile
for
OGSA.
To bring all interested parties together at the same time, a BOF has
been
scheduled for Tuesday June 28 noon-1:30 (unfortunately at the same time
as
the EGA session, but there were no good times available). The agenda
is
still being finalized, but we expect to broadly discuss the pros/cons
of
such an effort, and, if the BOF attendees decide that such an effort
would
be valuable, produce a concrete plan for the formation of a Working
Group.
Here is the information that Steven Newhouse provided for the GGF
organizers:
"A BOF meeting to discuss the creation of a WG to define an OGSA
Basic
Profile that builds upon a minimal set of simple web services. The output
of
the group would be a document, similar in nature to the OGSA WSRF
Basic
Profile that would allow OGSA services to be rendered using an
alternative
set of WS specifications."
I hope you can attend this (hopefully) productive and constructive
session!
-- Marty and Steven
Marty Humphrey
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
_______________________________________________________________
Ian
Foster
www.mcs.anl.gov/~foster
Math & Computer Science Div. Dept of Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory The University of
Chicago
Argonne, IL 60439, U.S.A. Chicago, IL 60637,
U.S.A.
Tel: 630 252
4619
Fax: 630 252 1997
Globus Alliance,
www.globus.org